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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Visoflexing
From: mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 22:37:29 -0400

No phase password. What is it a secret society?

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Mark William Rabiner
Photography
mark at rabinergroup.com


> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:13:16 +1000
> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: Visoflexing
> 
> One good VisoPet deserves another! Maybe they are like those
> Poke/Tamogotchie thingies our kids collected whole menageries of.
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/image/105411328
> (Elmar 135, Viso M8)
> 
> 
> Cheers
> Geoff
> http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman
> 
> 
> On 16 September 2010 11:38, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com> wrote:
> 
>>  George Lottermoser recently put up the nicest Viso picture I'd ever seen.
>>  Given that the M9 was in the hospital with a bad pixel, I thought I'd try
>> my hand at the Viso thing with the M8.   I've accumulated  a big box of 
>> Viso
>> gear in my closet, starting with a 280 Telyt-V and a Viso III I bought 
>> from
>> Emanuel Lowi  back in 2002.
>> 
>> I'm not a bug guy or a macro guy, so here's my first "nature image."  It's
>> not Muffin's prettiest portrait, but it's much closer than I can get with 
>> my
>> M lenses.  And not a bad wide-open 1/60th second image  for a 49-year-old
>> lens:
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/album_001/L8667972.JPG.html
>> 
>> 280 Telyt-V + Televit + Visoflex III + M8
>> 
>> Since Visoflexes are pretty arcane these days, here's what the Viso setup
>> itself looks like:
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/techie/L1060241.JPG.html
>> 
>> NOTE: My Viso needed a little tweaking, on the M8 it was definitely 
>> showing
>>  close on the film/sensor plane compared to the ground glass image.  I did
>> some googling, and discovered that the Visoflex has shims under the ground
>> glass carrier which can be used to correct the ground glass to the sensor.
>>  In my case, I had to add one thick and one thin shim, which I had handy
>> from a junk box of Viso parts:
>> 
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/techie/xL1060221.JPG.html
>> 
>> I might try the viso out on my daughters on the soccer field this weekend.
>> While I doubt I'll be able to get good action shots,  maybe I'll come home
>> with something nice. Besides a sore arm--that stuff is heavy!
>> 
>> -rei
>> 
>> 
>> 
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